18 Best Minimal WordPress Themes For Writers

Check out these beautiful minimal WordPress themes for writers. These themes will help you build professional, content-focused blogs and websites.

Personally, I am a lover of minimal design as it helps me to increase page views and reduce my bounce rate. Actually, you should also try a website design which is free of any graphics distraction. And then only you will notice that your readers can more easily focus on your content.

Top Minimal WordPress themes for Writers

So are you ready to explore this remarkable collection? If yes then just scroll down and choose a perfect design for your website or blog. But before you move I would like to point out that I have tried to focus on themes which designed specifically for writers, daily bloggers, and minimalist magazine sites.

1. Clean Blogging

It’s a free template designed and developed by Designgrande. It features a clean typography which enhances the overall readability of the site. On the homepage, you will find uniquely designed thumbnail and post title section. It also comes with customized default recent post widget which allows you to show the thumbnail along with the article’s title on the side.

Developed has focused on keeping this theme as fast as possible and that’s the reason why it doesn’t come with fancy sliders and related post widgets. One another advantage of this template is it’s ultra-mobile friendly design. The navigation supports two level of sub-menus. If submenus are added then automatically arrow animation effects are assigned to that parent menu.

Overall it’s a perfect theme for writers and content marketers who believe that typography, content, and way of expression is a much better way to achieve higher conversion than popups, sliders and huge javascript animated banners.

2. Koala

It is a mobile responsive, 2 column layout theme. It supports nine custom post formats which mean now you can publish posts of almost any type of style.

Koala has a beautiful content structure. On its homepage, you will find a grid style post slider. If you just scroll down, you will find recent posts along with customizable sidebar.

The sidebar can be personalized. You can add any type of custom widgets in the sidebar. For example, you can add twitter feed, social share, latest posts with thumbnail, related posts, and advertisement.

This theme also comes with advanced typography control options. Using control panel, you can customize the font family of your post titles, widgets, content area, header, and footer. You can choose among 700 Google web fonts and can assign them to any of your site’s element with just one click.

You can even extend the design of this Koala using wordpress customizer. Currently, more than 100+ customizations are possible. All you need to do is click on the provided and suitable options. You can do all sort of personalization without writing a single line of code.

3. The Reader – Minimal WordPress Theme Like Smashing Magazine

A super awesome theme which will give your blog a professional design similar to Smashing Magazine. Yes, that’s entirely true. Upon request from hundreds of users, Themexy’s developers have built “The Reader”. It is one of the best minimal wordpress themes.

The reader template currently supports five different, unique homepage designs. You can quickly change the layout with just a click of your button. Furthermore, it has a unique feature which allows you to assign a custom color for every category.

It has inbuilt social media support, and so you don’t need to install extra plugins to add the social share on your site. This theme also supports the right to left languages ( like Arabic ). It even comes with in-built support for WPML ( wordpress Multilingual plugin ) just in case your site publishes content in languages other than English.

4. Canary

It is a simple yet elegant wordpress theme designed for personal blogs. It has a full-width slider on the homepage just below the header area. Above the header area, you will find a clean navigation bar which has integrated search box.

When you scroll down the slider, you will find a big featured post area. Over here you can either show your latest or popular post. Then below just it, you will notice a grid layout. The homepage is completely customizable. You can choose among mixed, grid or simple list layout to showcase your latest posts.

The sidebar is also customizable with wordpress inbuilt widgets or custom widgets. There are total eight custom widgets which come integrated with the canary theme. Apart from these features, Canary has support for custom post formats, related posts with thumbnail and media feed.

5. Personal Blog – Free News Magazine WordPress Theme

It’s a professional and mobile-friendly theme built for blogging and newspaper websites. This theme can be easily customized via wordpress theme customizer. You can customize the header area, colors, and fonts.

Its design consists of user-friendly navigation. Social media links can be added to the primary menu. This will help improve your social presence and brand awareness. Currently, this wp design supports navigations in two different locations. First one above the header and second one below the header area.

It has a grid-based layout for the content area. The grid layout looks perfect on almost every device. It smoothly converts to single column layout in mobile screens. To help your visitors, quickly navigate to individual posts, engaging read more buttons are provided.

This free minimal wordpress theme comes with custom favorite posts widget. Through this widget, you can show all sort of featured or latest posts to your readers. You can also enable thumbnails to make your site look attractive and modern.

6. Blogging Pro

This theme is exquisite. I mean just look at it, the complete design feels so much comfortable, and the colors are really catchy.

This template comes with eight variations of a homepage and supports multiple colors skins. With one click you can switch to blue, dark, green, purple and orange colored skins. It also has various areas for widgets which you can use to place your custom sliders and social share buttons.

Blogging Pro doesn’t only looks professional it also has professional features. It is 100% Google mobile usability test approved, and it even passes Google schema test. This means you get the great look with the search engine friendly design.

7. Blogging Warrior Simplistic WordPress Template

If you want a free minimal wordpress theme with mobile responsive design and great typography, then blogging warrior is built for you. It has been developed by CMSWarrior and has got some really cool features.

It has integrated social media buttons and had an off-canvas sidebar. You can also customize the header image and author box. The header image is replaced with post featured image when anyone visits the single post.

8. Sentio – A Creative WordPress Blog Theme

WordPress is an excellent platform for publishing, and not only.

Sentio is designed to provide you the vast possibilities of WordPress and give your site a modern and clean look. It’s design powered by beautiful typography, responsive layout, excellent micro-interactions and smooth effects. It looks great on any resolution and is not bloated with useless features. It’s light, fast and customizable.

With Sentio WordPress theme all your posts formats (standard posts, videos, images, quotes, links, etc.) will look accordingly and provide the best UX to your visitors. You can use this elegant template on your blog, portfolio, agency site, corporate site or any other related site. Enjoy!

9. Themify base – Free clean WordPress blog theme

Themefy base is a responsive theme with the clean and straightforward layout. It has an exquisite design which utilizes full-width thumbnails. Actually, it’s a blogging template designed for those bloggers who want to just focus on their writing instead of the sidebar. It also has a great typography which doesn’t hinder reader’s eye.

It even supports mobile responsive navigation and footer menus. You also get widgetized footer area where you can place custom widgets to enhance the look of your blog.

10. Tesla

Built on Tesla framework this theme offers robust features. It has been developed considering the need for creative agency and small business. But you can also use it on your personal blogging site.

What I really like about this template it’s it’s beautiful filterable grid-based portfolio and the big bold header logo.

It’s a multi-purpose theme so you can use it to either promote your service or to share your ideas. You can also use it to show your creative works through the filterable portfolio.

With Tesla, you also get a customizable homepage slider along. Furthermore, you even get a testimonial rotator which is a perfect feature for small business websites. It even has inbuilt options for social media, related posts. To help you make your posts more attractive, it comes with lots of easy to use shortcodes.

Based on 12 column support structure it offers most unusual and professional layout which any free theme would ever have.

11. Gravit

Gravit is one column based clean WordPress blog theme which offers spotless and straightforward design. It also supports big, full-width featured image. You can even choose videos for your featured area.

Gravit supports almost every post format supported by wordpress. It further gives you powerful options to customize the formats as per your need. It has customizer which allows you to customize the icons, background, header and many other blocks.

To give your website a more personal feeling, it comes with an excellent, custom-made “About” page. About page can be further customized with the help of the inbuilt customizer.

12. Editor

The editor is bold, typography drive minimal theme. It has been created so that readers could focus entirely on your text. It has bold headlines, big and catchy text area which utilize Source Sans Pro web font.

This templates also have a unique menu system. It allows you to show your navigation in the sidebar with very clean and simple design which makes navigation incredibly easy. Actually, it supports tabbed menu which means the same block you can show categories, latest posts and featured content.

13. So simple by press75

So simple is truly the cleanest wordpress theme I have ever seen in my whole life. This template takes blogging to a new level.

It has nothing which could disturb eyes of your reader, not an even brand logo. The main intention behind the development of this theme was to offer the best reading and knowledge sharing experience to both readers and writers respectively.

According to the real developer, you can modify this theme as per your need. It means you can add a custom menu. You can even add logo option through coding. But then it would be a shame because the real intention behind the development of this theme will be destroyed.

14. Semicolon

The semicolon is a free simple wordpress theme and comes loaded with great features. Actually, it has been developed for magazine sites, but you can surely use it for personal blogging sites.

It’s so attractive and at the same time, it’s so simple that you will always get inspired to share something creative, new and simple with your readers.

It utilizes grid-based layout, and you have to install jetpack plugin in order to use its featured content functionality. The semicolon is based on a starter theme framework know as underscore which was developed by WordPress itself so as to power the wordpress designers with starting parent theme.

It has an inbuilt social menu which comes loaded with 20 social media websites and even support related posts. But if you want more control over the related post you can use famous yet another related post plugin.

16. Ryu Blogging Theme

It’s a simple, clean and modern theme for professional bloggers and writers. Ryu has been developed by Automattic, the parent of wordpress project. It offers a perfect design for writers to share their experience, personal views, and knowledge.

Ryu supports all types of post formats like images, gallery, video, quote, and others. One of the unique features of this theme is that the background of the post will match to the color of your first uploaded image. Let’s say your post consist of multiple images, then the color of the first image will be used to set the background color.

17. Tracks

Tracks is undoubtedly a unique free blogging theme. It has a unique design as it uses the grid structure in which posts along with their featured image is arranged in an alternate form.

Tracks is a minimal, beautiful and search engine friendly theme and are mobile responsive. It also supports responsive videos. You and your readers can easily read content on any mobile screen. It even offers inbuilt social media link option for author profile. This means that through your author bio section you can share social media profile with your readers.

18. Dazzling

Dazzling is free minimal WordPress theme from colorlib and features a full-width homepage slider. It is built on twitter bootstrap framework and has integrated font awesome ionic fonts support.

Thanks to its powerful options panel you can easily modify the background, header, sidebar and other custom blocks of your website. It has integrated support for woo commerce platform which means you can even use this theme for e-commerce.